Abstract
Bioceramics are widely adopted in the field of skeletal tissue reconstruction, augmentation, and replacement. Apatite-based materials have shown great promise in the latter half of the nineteenth century in this area. Understanding demands on implants and providing a pathway to match it has been a learning experience. Clinicians and technologists have been on this path assiduously to optimize graft properties vis-a-vis biological demand. This is due to their widely acceptable traits of biocompatibility, osteoconduction, and osteointegration. This chapter attempts to track their development over time and track applications of the materials in their maturation from pure graft materials to tissue engineering scaffolds and smart materials.
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Abbreviations
- ALP :
-
Alkaline phosphatase
- BMP:
-
Human bone morphogenic protein
- CaP:
-
Calcium phosphate
- Hap:
-
Hydroxyapatite
- MSC :
-
Mesenchymal stem cells
- TCP :
-
Tricalcium phosphate
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